ISLAMABAD, May 13 (APP)-Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif said Monday,
Pakistan is fully alive to its, ,"legitimate security concerns,"
and will take all essential measures to safeguard it. Pakistan alone will
decide what should be done to protect its national security,"he told
reporters on his return here from Kazakhistan. Commenting on three nuclear
tests conducted by India,Nawaz Sharif said, Pakistan was not surprised
over it."We were well aware of the designs of BJP Government,"
he added.

India delivers death blow to
the global efforts of non-proliferation : PM

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad NawazSharif said the
responsibility for delivering a death blow to theglobal efforts at non-proliferation
rests squarely with India. In a written statement on his arrival here this
afternoon from his two-day visit to Almaty, he regretted that Pakistan's
warnings remained unheeded. In fact, these tests were encouraged by the
discriminatory attitude of the powers which profess commitment to non-proliferation,
he added. The Prime Minister, while expressing determination to safeguard
the national security at all cost, said these powers had deliberately shut
their eyes to India's nuclear aspirations while chastising Pakistan for
uncommitted sins. He assured the nation that Pakistan has the capability
to respond to any threat to its security, adding on this there can be no
compromise and Pakistan alone will determine what is essential for our
security. He said the entire nation is united on this vital question, and
the government will take all necessary measures to safeguard the national
security, sovereignty, territorial integrity and national interests. Muhammad
Nawaz Sharif said the ideological and geographical frontiers of Pakistan
are, by the grace of Almighty Allah, impregnable. He further held out the
assurance that the country is fully capable of deterring any threat from
any quarter. He further said "While dismissing India's officially
proclaimed nuclear designs, the world community not only ignored our concerns
but also spoke of the assurance given by India that no changes in its nuclear
policy were in the offing. The world has now seen India in its true colours
with its sinister designs fully exposed, he added.

Pakistan must follow the India's
nuclear test: Benzair

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (APP) :Former Prime Minister of Pakistan and Opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto, responding India's nuclear tests, said on Tuesday
"Pakistan must follow the suit and sign the Nuclear Proliferation
Treaty (NPT)". "I would like Pakistan to sign the NPT after detonation
even if India does not sign it", she said in an interview with BBC
television. Ms.Bhutto said, "If Pakistan detonates, India will know
that there cannot be any solution of Kashmir dispute through war".
She said, "A deterrence will at least in a sense help peace be maintained
in the sub-continent". Ms. Bhutto said, each and every time India
pulled Pakistan into arms race. "What ever India does, Pakistan follows
suit". She recalled that India detonated a atomic device in 1974,
and forced Pakistan to start its nuclear programme. India developed `Prithvi'
and `Agni' missiles, and in the response, Pakistan developed its own indigenous
missile `Ghauri'. She said, "India has now gone ahead conducting three
nuclear tests and I expect Pakistan to follow the suit". "Pakistan
will probably test a nuclear device because we have dispute with India
over Kashmir". Ms. Bhutto said, "Pakistan had the capability
of testing nuclear device but it did not do so".

Gohar reiterates matching response to India

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (APP): Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan on Tuesday
said Pakistan would give a matching response to Indian nuclear optionand
held the international community responsible for letting India go ahead
with the nuclear tests. "We have absolutely made it clear in the past
that any step of nuclear escalation by India will find a matching response
from Pakistan. We stand by that commitment," Gohar said in a statement
in the Upper House of the Parliament. He assured the nation that Pakistan
has the technical capability to respond to any threats to its security.
"For the past five decades Pakistan has resolutely resisted India's
ambitions to establish its hegemony and diktat in South Asia. We will continue
to do so, undeterred by any Indian threats." Pakistan, Gohar added,
tried to warn the international community about the Indian ambitions, "but
some of our friends did not pay any heed." "We tried to alert
the international community while India traversed the long road to nuclear
weapons status through a series of incremental steps.

Iqbal Haider urges defence pact with China

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (APP): Senator Iqbal Haider on Tuesday suggested to
the Government to enter into a defence pact with China, a trusted friend,
to stave off any danger to country's security in the wake of India's nuclear
explosions. The PPP Senator urged the Government to review its re- alignment
and instead of relying on the countries who did not come to its aid in
the hour of trial, should have an open defence pact with China, a tried
and trusted friend. "The Government must act now and take confidence
building measures - and do its best to remove irritants that can come in
the way of an open defence pact with China," he said in the Upper
House. Referring to a book by a former Indian MP which established that
America had a "secret defence pact" with India in 1965, Haider
emphasized, now it is the time that Pakistan should differentiate between
its right friends and others.

International community should
put pressure on India rather than appealing Pakistan: Mushahid

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (APP): The International community should put pressure
on India rather than appealing Pakistan, because it is India which has
tested its nuclear weapons vis a vis devices and not Pakistan.

Information Minister Mushahid Hussain Sayed said in an interview with
BBC television here Tuesday night. To a question about Pakistan's response
following three underground nuclear tests carried out by India in Rajasthan
state, he said, "the issue is not what will Pakistan do, the issue
is whether the West will be able to match its concern for non-proliferation
with specific policy decision. We want to know whether the non-proliferation
concerns were countries-specific or there was actually a commitment to
the principles of non-proliferation, that's the core issue and not what
Pakistan is going to do" Mushahid remarked."

Clinton visit to India in Jeopardy-
Tough Sanctions Coming

WASHINGTON, DC, May 13 (APP) The United States will impose economic
and military sanctions on India over its three nuclear blasts near Pakistani
border on Monday. The decision was announced by President Clinton Tuesday
morning at a White House ceremony. Clinton pledged to enforce "very
stringent provisions' in U.S. law that deal with nuclear tests by non-nuclear
nations. "I intend to implement them fully", he said. President
Bill Clinton has also called back U.S. Ambassador from new Delhi for consultations
and urged India to halt its nuclear tests. He also called on neighbouring
nations "not to follow down the path of a dangerous arms race".
Clinton said, he was "deeply disturbed" and Indian action flew
in the face of "the firm international consensus" to stop the
spread of nuclear weapons. "I call on India to announce that it will
conduct no further tests and that it will sign the comprehensive test ban
treaty now and without conditions", Clinton said. White House officials
suggested that India's nuclear adventure had thrown into question President's
plan to visit India later this year. "We certainly are going to have
to assess that development as we consider our itinerary", White House
spokesman Mike McCurry said. Under the statute, the imposition of sanctions
"is dealt with almost as a certainty".

Indian nuclear explosions endanger world peace:
Tarar

LAHORE, May 13 (APP)-President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar said Tuesday that
the three nuclear explosions carried out by India had endangered peace
not only in the South Asian region but also on the global level. Talking
to newsmen after inaugurating the 67th annual session of the Pakistan Engineering
Congress at a local hotel here, he said that the explosions had also exposed
India's aggressive motives. To a question regarding the capability of Pakistan
to respond to the Indian moves, the President said that the country possessed
the required capability to counter such developments.